Snake Identifier

Snake Encyclopedia

Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with venomous status, family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell look-alikes apart.

Dwarf Sea Snake

A tiny, slender sea snake with an unusually small head, found in muddy coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand.

MacDowell's Sea Snake

A rarely documented sea snake from the Bay of Bengal region, named in honor of a herpetologist who studied elapid snakes.

Grey's Mudsnake

A small, primitive sea snake specialized for soft mangrove mudflats along the coast of north-western Australia, the sole member of its genus.

Mosaic Sea Snake

A slender, brightly patterned sea snake with a mosaic-like arrangement of dark blotches, found in shallow estuarine and coastal waters of Asia.

Jerdon's Sea Snake

A small, lesser-known sea snake found in the coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia, distinguished by its small size and relatively uniform coloration.

Estuarine Sea Snake

A sea snake specialized for life in murky estuarine and river-mouth waters across the Indo-West Pacific, tolerant of reduced salinity.

Large-Headed Sea Snake

A robust sea snake with a disproportionately broad head, found in muddy coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand and surrounding seas.

Cogger's Sea Snake

A reef-associated sea snake of northern Australian and western Pacific waters, named for herpetologist Harold Cogger.

Brooke's Sea Snake

A sea snake named for the historic 'White Rajahs' of Sarawak, found in coastal waters around Borneo and neighboring Southeast Asian regions.

Brown-Lined Sea Snake

A slender sea snake with fine brown longitudinal striping over a pale body, native to shallow coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand region.

Collared Sea Snake

A patterned sea snake with a distinctive dark collar marking behind the head, found in coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal and northern Indian Ocean.

Bombay Sea Snake

A regionally documented sea snake of the western Indian coast, associated with the shallow waters of the Arabian Sea near Mumbai.

Bighead Sea Snake

A sea snake with a proportionally oversized head, found in coastal waters of northern Australia and the Arafura Sea.

Crocker's Sea Krait

A remarkable sea krait endemic to a single landlocked lake in the Solomon Islands, unique among sea kraits for living entirely in brackish water.

Black-Ringed Mangrove Snake

A boldly ringed sea snake associated with mangrove-lined coastlines of the northern Bay of Bengal.

Black-Banded Sea Snake

A slender sea snake marked with bold black bands along a pale body, found in muddy coastal waters and estuaries throughout South and Southeast Asia.